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Infections and inflammation in prostate cancer
Karen S Sfanos,1 William B Isaacs,2 and Angelo M De Marzo1,2

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In younger men, infection-induced chronic inflammation of the prostate is known to occur as a disease entity called chronic bacterial prostatitis. The clinical syndrome of prostatitis is heterogeneous and is categorized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus classification as chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). CPPS is divided into four categories, only the first three of which relate to men with symptoms: (I) acute bacterial prostatitis; (II) chronic bacterial prostatitis; (III) chronic prostatitis/CPPS.

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Wrong, wrong, wrong! :boom:

It makes me so goddamned angry to see junk like this published! This garbage is even on Pubmed and carried by the NIH's National Library of Medicine's website as a full PubMed article!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124632/
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Talk about a circular, convoluted description.
Age: 26 | Onset Age: 23 | Symptoms: Neuropathic-like pain and hyperalgesia (lateral/anterior thighs mostly, but distributed throughout body); Pain (penis shaft, right side, when erect for long or excess masturbation) | Previous Symptoms: Pain (testicles; penis underside, mostly near base and running up urethra, sharp/burning; perennial region, dull; ejaculatory; post-ejaculatory); Urinary (moderate incomplete voiding; moderate frequency and pain on bladder filling); Sensations (cold in head of penis) | Helped By: Stretching (especially hip rotators and flexors); Yoga (especially lunges, warrior 2, and pigeon) Trigger point release (abdominals; iliopsoas; gluteus muscles and piriformis; bulbospongiosus & ischiocavernosus; thigh adductors); Meditation (mindfulness); Walking & Aerobic Exercise | Worsened By: Stress, anxiety, too much alcohol, lack of sleep, sitting at length | Current prescriptions: nortriptyline (10 mg, 1x at night; for CNS sensitization and IBS) Previous prescriptions: hydroxyzine (10 mg, 1x at night; for urinary symptoms/mast cell stabilization; useful), clonazepam (0.25-0.5 mg, 1x at night; for anxiety/CNS sensitization; useful for short time)
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And just plain incorrect too. CPPS is not "divided into 4 categories" etc
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There is an amazing proliferation of open access journals that for the most part seek to publish any garbage rejected by mainstream journals. Why? They charge a fee, often several thousand dollars, to publish each article. I get email requests to either be an editor, join the editorial board or submit an article from trash journals DAILY. In the past these journals would not have made it to pubmed, but they obviously have relaxed their standards. BTW, open access is not always synonymous with junk (PLoS one has become a respected journal and some mainstream journals offer open access options), but it often is, at least in 2014
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Eye-opening comments! :shock:

I am now suitably warned, and other members should also take note that standards are slipping. Be wary of anything published in open access journals.
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What's happened to peer-reviewing? such a shame.
Age: 30 | Onset Age: 19| Symptoms: Urinary frequency, Urinary urgency, constant 24/7 sensation in the penis (in the tip mainly - burning/pressure/discomfort/"wetness"), Nocturia, discomfort and pressure in the pelvic region radiating to the abdomen and becoming severe as time passes since last urination (resolved in 2014 by myofascial release), Stream velocity is somewhat slow and prolonged with an average velocity of ~13cc/min (and max 18cc/min) found in flowmetry test when bladder is filled with 500cc at age 25 (I always feel like I need to press my abdomen to urinate, improved later on when using alpha blockers)| Helped By: especially MYOFASCIAL RELEASE (especially in the areas of hips and abdomen) - generally resolved my abdominal aches, but penile symptoms remained the same| Worsened By: Coffee and possibly some other food as well| Other comments: Quercetin and acupuncture helped me no more than a placebo effect. Age 25-26: Diagnosed with indirect inguinal hernia and medium hydrocele at the same side. After operation many of the acute symptoms disappeared, but the chronic urinary and pelvic symptoms remained much the same.
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Wolfcub wrote:What's happened to peer-reviewing? such a shame.
Peer-reviewing is run by the journals themselves. Journals that just want to make money won't do peer-reviewing or will do a really simple one.
Age: 26 | Onset Age: 23 | Symptoms: Neuropathic-like pain and hyperalgesia (lateral/anterior thighs mostly, but distributed throughout body); Pain (penis shaft, right side, when erect for long or excess masturbation) | Previous Symptoms: Pain (testicles; penis underside, mostly near base and running up urethra, sharp/burning; perennial region, dull; ejaculatory; post-ejaculatory); Urinary (moderate incomplete voiding; moderate frequency and pain on bladder filling); Sensations (cold in head of penis) | Helped By: Stretching (especially hip rotators and flexors); Yoga (especially lunges, warrior 2, and pigeon) Trigger point release (abdominals; iliopsoas; gluteus muscles and piriformis; bulbospongiosus & ischiocavernosus; thigh adductors); Meditation (mindfulness); Walking & Aerobic Exercise | Worsened By: Stress, anxiety, too much alcohol, lack of sleep, sitting at length | Current prescriptions: nortriptyline (10 mg, 1x at night; for CNS sensitization and IBS) Previous prescriptions: hydroxyzine (10 mg, 1x at night; for urinary symptoms/mast cell stabilization; useful), clonazepam (0.25-0.5 mg, 1x at night; for anxiety/CNS sensitization; useful for short time)
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Here's a recent article from IFLS on the subject: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/jo ... iling-list
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Unbelievable! Thanks for the link ... I managed to work it into my blog post on the Prostatitis Foundation :mrgreen:
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